Active Directory Federation Services Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Active Directory Federation Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 49 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 9 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.28% 0.95% -
As % of the Systems Management category 6.82% 5.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £427 £400 -
25th Percentile £515 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £662 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +65.40% - -
75th Percentile £675 £401 -
90th Percentile £682 £401 -
North West median daily rate £550 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +37.50% -11.11% -18.18%

All Systems Management Skills
Cheshire

Active Directory Federation Services falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 132 72 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.78% 17.06% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 52 47
10th Percentile £331 £313 £341
25th Percentile £358 £364 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% -14.14% +7.03%
75th Percentile £559 £554 £559
90th Percentile £652 £638 £582
North West median daily rate £476 £475 £504
% change year-on-year +0.26% -5.75% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 8
10th Percentile - £21.05 £16.72
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.83 £17.49
Median hourly rate £16.00 £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -33.83% +36.46% -20.93%
75th Percentile £16.50 £64.17 -
90th Percentile - £81.38 £17.74
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £33.59 £19.25
% change year-on-year +63.74% +74.49% -48.67%

Active Directory Federation Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Active Directory Federation Services relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Active Directory Federation Services job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Active Directory Federation Services
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Active Directory Federation Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Active Directory Federation Services

Active Directory Federation Services
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services in Cheshire over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory Federation Services in Cheshire

Active Directory Federation Services
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 20 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warrington +5 7 £388 -3.25%
Knutsford - 2 £675 - 1
Active Directory Federation Services
North West

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 8 (88.89%) Azure
3 6 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (22.22%) OneDrive
5 1 (11.11%) AWS
5 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) IaaS
5 1 (11.11%) PaaS
5 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) DHCP
2 2 (22.22%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 3 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Military
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Security Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) JSON
1 2 (22.22%) OAuth
1 2 (22.22%) SAML
2 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
2 1 (11.11%) LDAP
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
2 1 (11.11%) OpenID
2 1 (11.11%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
1 2 (22.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Log Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (22.22%) Security Operations
3 2 (22.22%) SIEM
3 2 (22.22%) SOAR
3 2 (22.22%) Threat Detection
3 2 (22.22%) Use Case
3 2 (22.22%) Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Budget Management
4 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (11.11%) RBAC
4 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (22.22%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) LogRhythm
3 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
3 1 (11.11%) Okta
3 1 (11.11%) Proofpoint